They don't age out. You need to delete them. MS cleans up
very little in the directory automatically. Actually I was having an offlist
conversation with one of my MS friends about this topic in regards to the
previous FSP question. When deleting them it isn't too much impact, however,
when they get purged out after the tombstone expires you may find your DCs
chugging away if you have lots. I have seen hundreds of thousands of the
filelinks in a directory before eating up tremendous space.
Personally I would hope the AD admins are doing a good job
cleaning things up but for all practical purposes, most places aren't cleaning
up and have no clue that they should be or that they need to be. The hard part,
when SHOULD the system automatically delete something. It comes down it being
able to identify without a shadow of a doubt that the object isn't needed (say
computer objects, FSP, etc) or could be perfectly reconstituted if necessary in
the event of a bad delete.
joe
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AD
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:52 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers
Thanks for info the joe and
Guido,
Because of our politics where I work,
modifiying 40000 workstations is not that easy. Changing 20 DCs on the other
hand is a walk in the park.
If I do not remove all of the filelinks
manually, aren't they going to age out automatically after 60 days?
Thanks
Y
From: Grillenmeier, Guido
Sent: Mon 28/11/2005 11:46 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers
nope, no known impact (unless you have specifically
deployed an app that makes use of this service - none of the MS apps do, which
is why the service is disabled by default in Win2003).
however, if you want to make sure, why don't you just
reverse your disabling process: first disable all clients, then disable the
service on the DCs.
Don't forget to cleanup the records underneath your
domain's System\FileLinks\ObjectMoveTable and System\FileLinks\VolumeTable
containers as these will surely contain a lot of garbage.
/Guido
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AD
Sent: Montag, 28. November 2005 17:40
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Disabling "Distributed Link Tracking Server" on domain Controllers
As anyone found any issues in
disabling the "distributed link tracking server" on windows 2000 server
domain controllers?
I would like to take a two step approach in disabling this useless
service. First on the DCs and them on all workstations. I was just
wondering if there would be an impact on the clients seeing that cannot
communicate with the server.
Thanks
Yves
